A museum in Upper Austria has obtained a set of silver coins from the late Middle Ages. More than 6,000 coins were discovered during a renovation in Rainbach, Upper Austria. The old currency was wrapped in fabric and hidden inside a clay pot, according to the OÖ Lande-Kultur GmbH museum.
The hidden stash contained different kinds of coinage, which are the following:
-‘halves,’ which pfennigs and their half-pieces,
-‘Prague groschen,’ larger coins from Bohemia
-‘snake groschen,’ also known as Milanese pegioni
-Tiroler Kreuzer, a type of coin of high quality
Both the owner and the total value of the coins remain unknown and will be the subject of scientific study.
Image credit: Michael Maritsch/Zenger
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